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Wednesday, 16 July 2008 10:00 |
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European royal
families to help identify remains found near Yekaterinburg
Several European royal families related to the Romanov
family have agreed to provide DNA samples needed for additional tests on the
human remains found near Yekaterinburg, which are believed to be those of the
Romanov family, the Investigations Committee of the Russian prosecutor's office
said in an official report on Wednesday.
In July 2007, during the excavation on the Staraya
Koptyakovskaya road near Yekaterinburg, two human bodies with signs of a
violent death were found. Early data suggest that those were the remains of a
child aged between ten and 14 and of a young woman aged 20.
The theory that is currently being investigated is that the
found remains could be those of Crown Prince Alexey and Grand Duchess Maria,
executed in 1918.
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